The highlight of this year’s conference will be a special track on Co-operatives and Collectives organized in the memory of Dr. V Kurien, famously known as the ‘Milkman of India’, since this is the centenary year of the birth of Dr. Kurien
13 August, 2021, Bengaluru: The Centre for Public Policy (CPP) at Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) will host the XVI International Conference on Public Policy and Management, from August 23 to August 25, 2021. Due to the current situation brought about by the pandemic, the conference will be held online.
The annual conference has received a very good response. It is estimated that 56 papers would be presented in two tracks over three days of the conference. The highlight of this year’s conference will be a special track on Co-operatives and Collectives organized in the memory of Dr. V Kurien, famously known as the ‘Milkman of India’. This is the centenary year of the birth of Dr. Kurien.
The conference will be inaugurated by Dr. Mahesh Rangarajan, Vice Chancellor, Krea University, on August 23 at 0900 am. On the same day, there will be a special lecture on Federalism at 07.00 pm by P. T. R. Palanivel Thiagarajan, Hon. Finance Minister, Government of Tamil Nadu. The valediction will be held on August 25 and will be addressed by Prof. Jean Drèze, Visiting Professor at Ranchi University and Honorary Professor at the Delhi School of Economics.
The organizing committee of the conference comprises Prof. M S Sriram, Chairperson and faculty, Centre for Public Policy; Prof. Rajalaxmi Kamath and Prof. Arnab Mukherji from the Public Policy area, and Prof. Tirthatanmoy Das, faculty in the Economics & Social Sciences area of IIMB.
Click here to register
Click here for the Conference schedule
Please note: Access to the conference sessions is through registration only.
The links to some of the special lectures are mentioned below:
Welcome & Inaugural Speech: Welcome Note by Prof. Arnab Mukherji, Opening Remarks by Prof. Rishikesha T Krishnan and Inaugural Speech by Dr. Mahesh Rangarajan on August 23, 2021, from 09.00 am to 10.30 am – Link: https://youtu.be/A6OekmjIteE
NABARD session on August 23, 2021, from 04.00 pm to 05.00 pm, by R. Anand (GM), Chandan Chatterjee (DGM) and M R N Murthy (DGM) – Link: https://youtu.be/eXhEHRR2ELQ
Special Lecture on Federalism on August 23, 2021, from 07.00 pm to 08.30 pm, by P. T. R. Thiagarajan – Link: https://youtu.be/nzA3YPpyayw
Valedictory Address on August 25, 2021, from 02.30 pm to 04.00 pm, by Prof. Jean Drèze – Link: https://youtu.be/Ucw_EI629XU
About the speakers:
Dr. Rangarajan has an MA and a D Phil, both from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. His wide experience in academia includes faculty positions as Professor of Modern Indian History at the University of Delhi and Professor of History and Environmental Studies at Ashoka University, where he previously served as the Dean of Academic Affairs. He has also taught at Cornell University, Indian Institute of Science and National Centre for Biological Sciences. His first book ‘Fencing the Forest’ was published in 1996 and the most recent ‘Nature and Nation’, in 2018. His co-edited works include ‘India’s Environmental History’, and ‘At Nature’s Edge’. Having started his career as a journalist, he has also served in roles outside academia, including as the Director of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi.
Dr. Palanivel Thiagarajan is the MLA for Madurai Central Constituency in the 15th & 16th Legislative Assemblies of Tamil Nadu. He currently serves as the Minister for Finance & Human Resources Management in the Tamil Nadu Government. In June 2017, he was appointed as the (founding) Secretary of the newly formed IT wing of the DMK. In that capacity, he has undertaken the build-out of the party’s technology platforms and a cadre of over 1,50,000 office bearers across the state. He is also a designated spokesperson for the party, generally focusing on economic, budget and State/Central finances, and policy matters. Dr. Thiagarajan previously worked as an international investment banker for many years, in several trading, market sales, and management roles at Lehman Brothers (largely in New York), and Standard Chartered Bank (mostly based in Singapore) – where he last served as Senior Managing Director, Financial Markets, overseeing the sales of several fixed-income products globally. Prior to banking, his career spanned academia, agriculture, consulting, manufacturing, and research. Dr. Rajan earned a B Tech (Hons.) in Chemical Engineering from NIT, Trichy, MS (Operations Research) and PhD (Human Factors Engineering/Engineering Psychology) from the State University of New York, and an MBA (Finance) from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Prof. Jean Drèze studied Mathematical Economics at the University of Essex and did his PhD at the Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi. He has taught at the London School of Economics and the Delhi School of Economics, and is currently Visiting Professor at Ranchi University as well as Honorary Professor at the Delhi School of Economics. He has made wide-ranging contributions to Development Economics and Public Policy, with special reference to India. His research interests include rural development, social inequality, elementary education, child nutrition, healthcare and food security. Jean Drèze is co-author (with Amartya Sen) of ‘Hunger and Public Action’ (Oxford University Press, 1989) and ‘An Uncertain Glory: India and Its Contradictions’ (Penguin, 2013), and is also one of the co-authors of the ‘Public Report on Basic Education in India’, also known as ‘PROBE Report’. His latest book is ‘Sense and Solidarity: Jholawala Economics for Everyone’.
The highlight of this year’s conference will be a special track on Co-operatives and Collectives organized in the memory of Dr. V Kurien, famously known as the ‘Milkman of India’, since this is the centenary year of the birth of Dr. Kurien
13 August, 2021, Bengaluru: The Centre for Public Policy (CPP) at Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) will host the XVI International Conference on Public Policy and Management, from August 23 to August 25, 2021. Due to the current situation brought about by the pandemic, the conference will be held online.
The annual conference has received a very good response. It is estimated that 56 papers would be presented in two tracks over three days of the conference. The highlight of this year’s conference will be a special track on Co-operatives and Collectives organized in the memory of Dr. V Kurien, famously known as the ‘Milkman of India’. This is the centenary year of the birth of Dr. Kurien.
The conference will be inaugurated by Dr. Mahesh Rangarajan, Vice Chancellor, Krea University, on August 23 at 0900 am. On the same day, there will be a special lecture on Federalism at 07.00 pm by P. T. R. Palanivel Thiagarajan, Hon. Finance Minister, Government of Tamil Nadu. The valediction will be held on August 25 and will be addressed by Prof. Jean Drèze, Visiting Professor at Ranchi University and Honorary Professor at the Delhi School of Economics.
The organizing committee of the conference comprises Prof. M S Sriram, Chairperson and faculty, Centre for Public Policy; Prof. Rajalaxmi Kamath and Prof. Arnab Mukherji from the Public Policy area, and Prof. Tirthatanmoy Das, faculty in the Economics & Social Sciences area of IIMB.
Click here to register
Click here for the Conference schedule
Please note: Access to the conference sessions is through registration only.
The links to some of the special lectures are mentioned below:
Welcome & Inaugural Speech: Welcome Note by Prof. Arnab Mukherji, Opening Remarks by Prof. Rishikesha T Krishnan and Inaugural Speech by Dr. Mahesh Rangarajan on August 23, 2021, from 09.00 am to 10.30 am – Link: https://youtu.be/A6OekmjIteE
NABARD session on August 23, 2021, from 04.00 pm to 05.00 pm, by R. Anand (GM), Chandan Chatterjee (DGM) and M R N Murthy (DGM) – Link: https://youtu.be/eXhEHRR2ELQ
Special Lecture on Federalism on August 23, 2021, from 07.00 pm to 08.30 pm, by P. T. R. Thiagarajan – Link: https://youtu.be/nzA3YPpyayw
Valedictory Address on August 25, 2021, from 02.30 pm to 04.00 pm, by Prof. Jean Drèze – Link: https://youtu.be/Ucw_EI629XU
About the speakers:
Dr. Rangarajan has an MA and a D Phil, both from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. His wide experience in academia includes faculty positions as Professor of Modern Indian History at the University of Delhi and Professor of History and Environmental Studies at Ashoka University, where he previously served as the Dean of Academic Affairs. He has also taught at Cornell University, Indian Institute of Science and National Centre for Biological Sciences. His first book ‘Fencing the Forest’ was published in 1996 and the most recent ‘Nature and Nation’, in 2018. His co-edited works include ‘India’s Environmental History’, and ‘At Nature’s Edge’. Having started his career as a journalist, he has also served in roles outside academia, including as the Director of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi.
Dr. Palanivel Thiagarajan is the MLA for Madurai Central Constituency in the 15th & 16th Legislative Assemblies of Tamil Nadu. He currently serves as the Minister for Finance & Human Resources Management in the Tamil Nadu Government. In June 2017, he was appointed as the (founding) Secretary of the newly formed IT wing of the DMK. In that capacity, he has undertaken the build-out of the party’s technology platforms and a cadre of over 1,50,000 office bearers across the state. He is also a designated spokesperson for the party, generally focusing on economic, budget and State/Central finances, and policy matters. Dr. Thiagarajan previously worked as an international investment banker for many years, in several trading, market sales, and management roles at Lehman Brothers (largely in New York), and Standard Chartered Bank (mostly based in Singapore) – where he last served as Senior Managing Director, Financial Markets, overseeing the sales of several fixed-income products globally. Prior to banking, his career spanned academia, agriculture, consulting, manufacturing, and research. Dr. Rajan earned a B Tech (Hons.) in Chemical Engineering from NIT, Trichy, MS (Operations Research) and PhD (Human Factors Engineering/Engineering Psychology) from the State University of New York, and an MBA (Finance) from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Prof. Jean Drèze studied Mathematical Economics at the University of Essex and did his PhD at the Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi. He has taught at the London School of Economics and the Delhi School of Economics, and is currently Visiting Professor at Ranchi University as well as Honorary Professor at the Delhi School of Economics. He has made wide-ranging contributions to Development Economics and Public Policy, with special reference to India. His research interests include rural development, social inequality, elementary education, child nutrition, healthcare and food security. Jean Drèze is co-author (with Amartya Sen) of ‘Hunger and Public Action’ (Oxford University Press, 1989) and ‘An Uncertain Glory: India and Its Contradictions’ (Penguin, 2013), and is also one of the co-authors of the ‘Public Report on Basic Education in India’, also known as ‘PROBE Report’. His latest book is ‘Sense and Solidarity: Jholawala Economics for Everyone’.